Conferences & Workshops
Below is a complete list of conferences and events the Center has organized or attended in recent years.
Cross-Border Families under Covid-19 – an international workshop
The global Covid-19 crisis provided more, and alarming, evidence of the socio-legal vulnerabilities of cross-border families. For example, bi-national couples are separated for long periods of time; intended parents are unable to collect their baby from the country of the surrogate; and families assisted by a migrant care worker, the workers, and their left behind families, are entangled in new complex relations of power and dependency. Likewise, the right to heath is at risk when a family member is denied treatment because of partial citizenship status, and questions such as the enforcement of child support across borders are even harder to address than in more peaceful times.
This international socio-legal workshop explored the impact of the Covid-19 crisis and its regulation on cross-border families, and the role of the law, in different countries, in shaping this impact and in challenging it.
